Research Catalog

Title

Visions of nature : how landscape photography shaped settler colonialism / Jarrod Hore.

Author

Hore, Jarrod, 1990-

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

xvii, 333 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"Visions of Nature revives the work of a cast of late nineteenth century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers from Australia to California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and recreated on vacations. In both the American West and Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, 'nature' came to be associated with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness by a generation of photographers, a perspective that disguised the realities of indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the settler work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a sweeping new comparative frame"--

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Photography > Political aspects > 19th century
• Settler colonialism > 19th century
• Photography > Political aspects
• Settler colonialism

Genre/Form

• Photographs.
• Art.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality -- Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world -- Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste -- A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes -- Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes -- Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century -- Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage -- Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century -- Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.

Call Number

JQE 22-681

ISBN

• 9780520381254
• 0520381254
• 9780520381261
• 0520381262

LCCN

2021036641

OCLC

1267401935

Author

Hore, Jarrod, 1990- author.

Title

Visions of nature : how landscape photography shaped settler colonialism / Jarrod Hore.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIV. OF NEW SOUTH WALES. EXAMINES ROLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY VIA COMPARISON OF TASMANIA & CALIFORNIA

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

Online version: Hore, Jarrod, 1990- Visions of nature Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520381278 (DLC) 2021036642

Research Call Number

JQE 22-681